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13 - Mark Bowden, Director, Save the Children Fund, Bangladesh, in interview with the author, 18 September, 1980. Dr. Martin Schweiger, personal communication, 13 July 1981. 14 Dr. DhruvMankad, "Proposal for the Self-Reliant Alternatives to Western Medicine Project", 7 January 1981, OXFAM file, MAH.87. 15 Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan, "Medicinal Plants: An alternative to the rising costs of medicines", May 1979. (mimeo) 16 - 17 WHO, op. cit. 18 - Neem / azadirachta indica-meliaceae. Dr. Hye, personal communication, lOAugust, 1981. P. C. Roy Chaudhury, "Herbal Medicines for Common Ailments", The Himachal. The International Organisation of Consumer Unions warns that neem oil has been identified as the cause of Reye syndrome, where there is an acule onset of damage lo the liver, kidneys and brain. Symptoms of poisoning are observed within 2-4 hours of consuming 5-3Omg of the oil (studies of the University of Malaya Hospital, Kuala Lumpur). (Personal communication from Foo Gaik Sim, Head of Information and Research, 5 August 1981.) 19 - Peter Parish, Medicines, A Guide for Everybody, Penguin, 1981. Anil Agarwal, Drugs and the Third World, an Earthscan Publication, International Institute for Environment and Development, August 1978. -Digoxin and quinine are included in the WHO Selection of Essential Drugs, (Technical Repori Series No. 641, Geneva 1979). Ephedrine and reserpine are included in the WHO Selection as "complementary" rather than "essential"drugs. ? 20 UNCTAD, Case Studies in the transfer of technology: The Pharmaceutical Industry in India, study prepared by the Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1977. Prof. K.N.Udupa, Banaras Hindu University, "The Role of Indian medicine in Primary Health Care", paper presented at the symposium on Primary Health Care, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 13-16 April 1982. (mimeo) Dr. J. S. Yudkin, Whittington Hospital, in interview with the author, October 1981. 21 Dr. H.K.M. Hye, in interview with the.author, Delhi, 20 October 1980. 22 Galvez-Tan, op.cit. 23 Agarwal, op.cit. 24 Hye, "Utilisation of Traditional Medicines in Primary Health Care", op. cit., p.6. 25 Prof. Arnold Beckett, quoted in SCRIP, No. 628, 23 September 1981, p.13. 26 Hye, "Utilisation of Traditional Medicines in Primary Health Care", op.cil., p.5. 27 Ibid., p.4. 28 Agarwal, op.cit. 29 Hye, "Utilisation of Traditional Medicines in Primary Health Care", op.cit., p.6. 30 Sheila Hillier, lecturer London Hospital Medical College, in interview with the author, 25 April 1981. 31 WHO, Drug Policies and Management Problems, Constraints and Strategies, Report on the Inter-Country Consultative Meeting on Drug Policies and Management, New Delhi, 13-16 October 1980, (ICP DPM 001.00) WHO Regional Office for S.E. Asia. 32 33 Dr. Tcheknavorian-Asenbauer, Chief Pharmaceutical Industries Unit, UNI DO, in interview with the author, 27 May, 1981. WHO, Drug Policies and Management-Problems, Constraints and Strategies, op.cit. 34 Agarwal, op.cit. "Some scientists believe that their knowledge may be more valuable than 237